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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:39:07 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>,
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Subject: Re: Why not use partition d?
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
>Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> writes:
>> I recently saw a statement on -hackers which asserted that one
>> should not use partition d on FreeBSD disks "for historical
>> reasons".
>
>There is no longer any reason for that, unless you plan to mount the
>disk on a very old BSD system.

What did they use partition d for?

Tony.
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